Since the price of redeeming him is too costly, one should forever stop trying-- Psalm 49:8 HCSB
Mankind can never redeem himself or his brother. You can't forgive your own self or separate your own self from sin. Only the way God sees us, in the light of the eternal consequence of Jesus' finished act of redeeming mankind with His own life, removes sin from your knowledge of God and yourself. Our blindness is cured as He is revealed in Jesus as equally true of us and God, restoring to us our sense of equal-value. Humanity could never redeem themselves or one another because in order to rightly assess an individual's worth, one must first possess a properly calibrated scale. What is the accurate measure of a man? To define the standard by which a man is measured first requires an authentic blueprint intent of God's design of man. God's original intent is the gold-standard backing the value of the human being. One must be intimately acquainted with himself as revealed in the knowledge of God concerning the whole represented in the one man Christ before accuracy in sight and judgement is awakened in him. The standard of man, the one who before God stands as perfect and complete, the whole man or "holy one" is Jesus as the accurate reflection of man as one who is in total consistency with God's design, and in harmony with every intent of God.
Jesus is Himself God on display as man's spiritual purpose and intention. God established Himself and us in Christ because it takes the opinion of someone higher than humanity to overrule opinions accrued by men among themselves. He put an end to contradiction between a man's opinion of you and God's opinion of you by graciously revealing Himself as equally true of you from both vantage points, God and humanity. Jesus is the truth of both God and Man in one body.. Only His truth redeems us because to redeem oneself in any other way would be far too costly a price for any man to pay or consider himself the worthy recipient of. Only the Author of Human Life represents the value of the individual, and only His life can redeem us. Only by Jesus' definitive act on behalf of mankind does God Himself separate error from your view of Him, and to your view of yourself, and likewise separating error from the identities of everyone else all around you. By exercise of our own exhaustible human flesh-backed will, we would never truly know ourselves. We'd measure others against ourselves or ourselves against others if left to discover equal value among ourselves. We'd be wrong about ourselves [or any man] if we failed to recognize our God given definition in Christ. In Him, our name is set above and beyond the definition ascribed to mankind by his circumstances. Any definition of man according to what body or circumstance he now finds himself in is nullified and voided due to the redemptive act of Jesus Christ on his behalf. Any idea of man inconsistent with His own is rendered erroneous and fails to satisfy the standard of the measure of man gifted to all as a result of the crucifixion and resurrection of humanity accomplished on our behalf by Jesus Christ. He is the evidence of our redemption that's demanded by our hearts; our hope of glory.
Faith, God's own belief concerning us, is the evidence of things seen and unseen. There's no hope for religion to succeed in defining Him because man can only assess things according to it's own value. God assesses according to HIS own value and likewise recognizes HIS value in US, His Image, Offspring, and Heir. We inherited the value of His life, and His life's value likewise defines the value of every other in His sight as no flesh escaped the consequence of His Word becoming Flesh. The definition of mankind would no longer be based on the results of their own decisions; Jesus revealed mankind as the free-will decision of God. Man would no longer be defined by their own personal choices, which merely echoed the choices of those he'd been influenced by in the flesh on the Earth. Because no man could separate himself from the definition accrued by his flesh on the Earth, or from the body he inherited from his father in flesh, only His father in Spirit can redeem Him or reveal Him fully expressed in, totally set apart from and eternally exalted above the flesh He inhabits. Jesus is the Son of God. Only God's association of us with Him confirms our being God's chosen ones and beloved children.
So what of our soul's redemption? We cease from any labors already revealed as having been provided by God and therefore inherent to God; everything contained in God was made ours by the Grace of life in His Son. The graces of Jesus' sonship are now distributed to us in His name. Jesus is on our behalf and His life was made ours when He gave it. His faith that everything in Him be made ours as a Grace was true in us from the beginning. There is no currency or alternate method by which a man could regain within himself the sense dignity he'd been designed for by God, nor could the image of his brother be dignified or restored again in his sight outside of the revealing of all mankind as defined by Jesus, who came as the Last Adam, revealing humanity more completely than the First Man did because He is the Image of God from whom the First Man had been created! He is the foundation, the wisdom upon which we'd been built, and the structure built in ignorance of him was circumcised from our flesh when Jesus was crucified on behalf of all flesh at the cross and arose triumphant and victorious over death and over every and any contradiction that could ever seek to establish itself in the minds of men ever again.
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